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Senator Elizabeth Warren wants regulators to make sure Wall Street doesn’t dodge the #MeToo movement. Warren, the finance industry’s leading critic in Congress, asked the Securities and Exchange Commission what it’s done to ensure banks have established policies and disciplinary...

Say you work at a Jiffy Lube 30 miles from your house. You’re happy enough there, but when you see an opening at another Jiffy Lube that’s around the corner from where you live, you can’t resist applying. You think...

Members of Massachusetts’ congressional delegation who have previously raised concerns about Betsy DeVos leading the Department of Education, released a new report Thursday suggesting that the secretary’s tenure has “been a boon for shady for-profit colleges, student loan companies and...

The Federal Reserve should vote rather than leave it to a staffer to determine whether to lift the growth restrictions on Wells Fargo over its customer account scandal, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Thursday. Warren made the call during the Senate...

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, is introducing a bill that will make it harder for companies to hide settlements over sexual harassment claims with employees.  …  “Our bill will help systemically expose workplace harassment and push employers...

Equifax has not told the whole story when it comes to its massive security breach first reported last September, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) says. Over the last five months, her office investigated the breach and presented its findings in a new report, “Bad...

All 11 members of Massachusetts’ congressional delegation received high marks for their votes on environment-related policies in 2017 — ranking the state among the top in the country on such issues, the League of Conservation Voters announced this week. …...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) plan to introduce new legislation that would require public companies to make data about sexual harassment in their workplaces public.   … The legislation would force companies to report sexual harassment-related settlements, including the amount of...

Following the series of high-profile workplace sexual harassment and abuse allegations that have surfaced in recent months, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is looking to require publicly traded companies to disclose any settlements arising from such claims.   … Warren offered that the proposed “Sunlight in Workplace Harassment Act” is...

The state’s two Democratic U.S. senators have come down strongly on the side of unions in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that could undermine labor unions that represent government workers. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Monday at a rally...

The war of words between acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the agency’s architect, is escalating. …. Warren wrote her letter along with Rep. Maxine Waters of California, ranking member on the House Financial Services...